It's all just money $$$

I mean don't forget Tucker Carlson used to work for CNN. These people will do anything and say anything for money

He was forced to buy it, don't you recall his court case? I mean he literally signed the contract then tried to weasel out of the deal by saying Twitter was overvalued and took it to court and lost.

He only ever wanted to destroy twitter so he never cared to begin with

So why is Texas a red state?

Yeah, and we all know the Salem Witch Trials were totally validated after all these centuries right?

Are you being serious?

If they were ashamed they never would've let this happen to begin with, but records now show it's been a constant theme with cops all across America

They're just ashamed they were caught, as always

The article makes it sound like he's already President or something, and no, he won't be.

I still can't believe he's given any time at all to be honest. When he reposted Adam Scott saying white people should just stay away from black people I was shocked, but I was equally as shocked at how MSNBC still gave this loser an interview and how people are still defending him. It's insane to give a known nazi any time of day on any public network

Uncle Tom is a racist term that was used by the KKK to describe black people who wanted to "act white" by selling out other black people.

But it's wildly inaccurate. It has nothing to do with the actual book Uncle Toms Cabin, one of the most popular books ever written (it outsold the Bible in the 1850's). Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote the book was an abolitionist, she was very very anti-slavery like Mark Twain. Uncle Tom in the book is based on an actual former slave, and Uncle Tom in the book, if you actually read the book, SPOILER ALERT, is beaten to death at the end for refusing to give up the whereabouts of 2 other slaves. That's Uncle Tom, a martyr.

Calling someone an Uncle Tom means you're calling them a hero, not a sellout. The whole phrase you're referring to comes from the play that was written afterwards which turned Uncle Tom into a meek character because the play writers didn't think people would've liked the ending of having a man beaten to death.

Here's a wonderful article about it

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93059468

Quoting from the article:

MARTIN: What is it that African-Americans hate about this story?

Prof. TURNER: Many African-Americans don't hate the real story that Stowe wrote. The Uncle Tom character that she gives us is extraordinarily Christian. The climax of the story really comes when Uncle Tom is asked to reveal where two slave women are hiding, who had been sexually abused by their master. And he refuses. Knowing that he is going to be beaten to death, he refused to say where they are. And African-Americans who have read the novel can appreciate what kind of heroism that took for a black man to sign away his life to save two black women.

Unfortunately, the stage depictions don't include that part of the story. They grossly distort Uncle Tom into an older man than he is in the novel, a man whose English is poor, a man who will do quite the opposite, who will sell out any black man if it will curry the favor of a white employer, a white master, a white mistress. It's that distorted character that is so objectionable to African-Americans.

Prof. TURNER: The producers of the early stage shows didn't think that they could attract an audience for the Uncle Tom as he was depicted by Stowe. They couldn't sell tickets to a theatrical production, the climax which would have been this man dying, rather than the revealing the whereabouts of these women.

They could sell tickets, as they had been successful by showing blacks in minstrel depictions, showing them liking to dance more than they liked to work, showing their insensitivity to each other, showing their willingness to tell the master or mistress what he or she wanted to hear. That sold tickets, and so those were the shows that they produced, staged and circulated throughout the world.

I highly recommend everyone actually read Uncle Toms Cabin

I don't really remember those days, they seem like a lifetime ago to me but I listened to a town hall he did not long ago and he was on the ball the whole time, I felt he came off more as a Democrat with some of the things he says

But I admit I'm pretty ignorant of his governing days and the trump stuff, I just don't remember it that well with everything that was going on

Also isn't Newsweek literally a Republican publication? Or am I thinking of something else

Theocratic countries are seriously the worst places in the world

Same with us Black people, we're not a monolith either. I know many right-wing black people. 80% of us Black Americans self-identify as Christian for instance, so criticism of Christianity really doesn't sit well at all within black communities

This is good news, Trump tried this same stunt in 2018 and was shot down by the same Judge.

There was "international" trading as far back as 2000 years ago, regardless of the formation of Nation-States, there was a great deal of trading between people of different lands

Seems to be fixed now

well apparently there's evidence to that effect, so if true then I think they should be released

I agree, lets leave Ukraine......or wait, that's different because they're white right?

I love this racist pattern, the US should only intervene in white countries according to people with that mindset

Well as a black man, the US should do more in Africa, as those are MY people and I want them to succeed, but this attitude you people have about abandoning people of color all the time shows a very strange pattern

Can confirm, issue resolved

But one person in the Democratic party still screwed over the environment because Joe Manchin gets the most kickbacks from Oil companies, so it's a blow to all of us Democrats regardless and does nothing to help the party or this country

Biden is a Republican

This is discriminatory and it shouldn't even need to exist, I mean, heck, you can literally buy legal weed over the internet now and get it delivered to your door, you can purchase seeds too because in 2018 selling hemp was decriminalized federally